New research challenges the long-standing idea that most fixed genetic mutations are neutral. For many years, scientists studying evolution have believed that most genetic changes influencing how ...

An international team of marine scientists has identified and assessed major threats to marine megafauna, which are needed to ...

Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Biology have identified a unique mechanism involved in the aging of the immune ...

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Stem cells, including both pluripotent stem cells and multipotent somatic stem cells, hold great potential for interrogating the mechanisms of tissue development, homeostasis and pathology, and for ...

Dr. Rebecka Sepela’s research is uncovering the role of microbes in creating a chemical language that connects all organisms ...

Scientists have recovered the oldest-known RNA, a molecule necessary for most biological functions, from a woolly mammoth ...

The synthesis and transport of biological lipids across the mostly water-filled interior of the cell is a longstanding problem in biology. One of the solutions that nature has employed to solved it, ...

Throughout evolution, pathogenic microorganisms, such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi, have developed sophisticated defense ...